Bangladeshi returnees from jobs overseas sink into debt amid glut of workers
The novel coronavirus has devastated the South Asian nation, which is one of the world's largest exporters of workers and the world's second largest supplier of clothing.
At least 50 people have died in Bangladesh as cold weather continues to sweep across the country, officials said. The country's lowest temperature this year — 4.5 degrees Celsius (40.1° Fahrenheit) — was recorded early Sunday in Tetulia, a border town in the north of ...
A Bangladesh court handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group on Wednesday for their role in an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the South Asian nation's worst such incident. "Charges against them were ...
Trading house Sumitomo to manage Japan-financed special economic zone near Dhaka
Major trading house Sumitomo Corp. will manage a special economic zone financed by Tokyo and expected to open near the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, in early 2022, according to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the government's development aid arm. Land reclamation for the economic zone ...
Osaka is the third most liveable city in the world after Vienna and Melbourne, according to a recent global survey by the research unit of British magazine The Economist. The Kansai metropolis boosted its ranking from last year, when it didn't make the top 10. ...
Kawasaki Heavy and Mitsubishi to supply train cars for Dhaka project
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corp. have won a ¥40 billion order from a Bangladesh state-owned company to supply 144 train cars and maintenance depot equipment for the country's first rapid transit railway system. The state-run Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Co. is now building ...
Dhaka police nab four who rented property on sly to cafe attackers
Police in Dhaka on Saturday arrested three people and another on Sunday, including a university professor, for failing to register information about tenants renting property who later attacked a cafe in the city, killing 20 people. Gias Uddin Ahsan, a professor at North South University ...
Sole Japanese survivor of Dhaka attack says he hid in cafe's garden
The 46-year-old, who is recovering in a Tokyo hospital from a gunshot wound, reportedly ran from the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe as the shooting started.
Bangladeshi police said on Tuesday one of the men they shot dead during the siege of a Dhaka cafe on the weekend may have been a hostage killed by mistake, while the hunt for accomplices of the gunmen who killed 20 people focused on ...
Islamist party leader hanged in Dhaka for 1971 war rape, genocide
Bangladesh hanged Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for genocide and other crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, the law minister said, a punishment that risked provoking an angry reaction from his supporters. Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, ...
Bangladesh seeks FBI's help in investigating central bank heist
Bangladesh has formally sought assistance from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to track down the cyber crooks who stole $81 million from its central bank's U.S. account, the interior minister said on Saturday. Unknown hackers breached the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank in early ...
Bangladesh al-Qaida branch claims February hacking death of U.S. citizen blogger, SITE says
The leader of al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed responsibility for the murder of a U.S. citizen hacked to death in Bangladesh in February and the deaths of other "blasphemers" in the region, SITE Intelligence Group reported on Sunday. Bangladeshi police stood by their ...
